S.W.A. Dekker

S.W.A. Dekker is a full-time Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, specializing in Control & Simulation. His research bridges disciplines like Safety Engineering, Organizational Behavior, and Ethics in Engineering, focusing on improving resilience in high-risk environments such as aviation and aerospace.

• Role: Professor in Aerospace Engineering
• Key Collaborators: Michelle Tooma, V. Zimmermann, D.D. Woods, M.D. Layson, L. Boskeljon-Horst, S. Sillem

Research Interests include:

• Safety Engineering: Developing metrics for worker safety beyond incident-based approaches.
• Resilience Engineering: Investigating how high-reliability organizations sustain safety outcomes.
• Ethics in Engineering: Addressing moral injury and betrayal in safety-critical domains.
• Safety Culture: Critiquing cultural assessments and their inverse relationship with safety outcomes.
• Compliance and Regulation: Analyzing the unintended consequences of market-driven regulatory frameworks.

Publications (2021–2022) highlight trends in safety engineering, organizational resilience, and ethical frameworks. His work emphasizes shifting from reactive incident-based metrics to proactive capacity assessments, while critically examining systemic pressures in compliance regimes.

Advising and Collaborations are evident in supervised works, though specific student names are not listed here. His research outputs reflect multidisciplinary collaborations with experts like David D. Woods and others.